LEMON SKY
WATCH THE FILM HEREPulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson’s searing drama of a young man as he rediscovers the father who abandoned him ten years earlier. Set in southern California, told in flash back, the drama recounts a summer in the late Fifties as the son tries to re-establish family ties only to discover that past abuses, painful memories make reconciliation an impossibilty. The film features innovative visual techniques, as well as brilliant performances by a stellar cast. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
“UNDER THE ACUTELY visual eye of director jan egleson, lemon sky emerges as a wide but piercing look into a family unit from within by the rages and demons of its patriarchal head”
‘Lemon Sky’ , by Duane Byrdge
(Variety)
“Alan is played by Kevin Bacon who, under Jan Egleson's keenly intelligent direction, makes all of this look deceptively simple”
TV Reviews; Lanford Wilson’s ‘Lemon Sky,’ on Channel 13, by John J O’Connor
(The New York Times)
the making of lemon sky
A CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR JAN EGLESON
